A psychometric assessment of the multi-factor attitude toward condoms scale (MFACS)

International Journal of Sexual Health

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-129

  Reece, Michael ^a   Herbenick, Debby ^a   Hollub, Ariane V ^b   Hensel, Devon J ^a,c   Middlestadt, Susan E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Condoms; HIV; Psychometrics sexual health; STI

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953368386     PISSN: 19317611     EISSN: 1931762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19317610903526097     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1977). Attitude-behavior relations: A theoretical analysis and review of empirical research. Psychological Bulletin, 84(5), 888-918.
2. Albarracin, D., Johnson, B. T., Fishbein, M., & Muellerleile, P. A. (2001). Theories of reasoned action and planned behavior as models of condom use: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 127(1), 142-161.
3. Bagozzi, R. P. (1981). An examination of the validity of two models of attitude. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 16(3),323-359.
4. Bagozzi, R. P., & Burnkrant, R. E. (1979). Attitude organization and the attitude-behavior relationship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37(6), 913-929.
5. Bagozzi, R. P., & Burnkrant, R. E. (1985). Attitude organization and the attitude-behavior relation: A reply to Dillon and Kumar. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49(1), 47-57.
6. Basen-Engquist, K.,Masse, L.C.,Coyle, K.,Kirby, D.,Parcel, G. S., Banspach, S., et al. (1999). Validity of scales measuring the psychosocial determinants of HIV/STD-related risk behavior in adolescents. Health Education Research, 14(1), 25-38
7. Bentler, P. M. (1990). Comparative fit indices in structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 238-246.
8. Boyd, B., & Wandersman, A. (1991). Predicting undergraduate condom use with the Fishbein and Ajzen and the Triandis Attitude-Behavior Models: Implications for public health interventions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 21(22), 1810-1830.
9. Brown, I. S. (1984). Development of a scale to measure attitude toward the condom as a method of birth control. The Journal of Sex Research, 20(3), 255-263.
10. Brown, T. A. (2006). Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research. New York: Guilford Press.
11. Browne, M. W., & Cudeck, R. (1993). Alternate ways of assessing model fit. In K. A. Bollen & J. S. Long (Eds.), Testing structural equation models (pp. 136-162). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
12. Byrne, B. M. (2001). Structural equation modeling with AMOS: Basic concepts, applications, and programming. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
13. Byrne, B. M. (2005). Factor analytic models: Viewing the structure of an assessment instrument from three perspectives. Journal of Personality Assessment, 85(1), 17-32.
14. Campbell, S. M., Peplau, L. A., & DeBro, S. C. (1992). Women, men, and condoms: Attitudes and experiences of heterosexual college students. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 273-288.
15. Cattell, R. B. (1966). The Scree test for the number of factors. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1(2), 245-276.
16. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2001). HIV prevention strategic plan though 2005. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 22, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov/ hiv/resources/reports/PSP/pdf/prev-strat-plan.pdf
17. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2003). Male latex condoms and sexually transmitted diseases. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from http://www. cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/condoms.pdf
18. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007a). CDC HIV prevention strategic plan: Extended through 2010. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from http:// www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/reports/psp/pdf/psp.pdf
19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007b). Sexually transmitted disease surveillance 2006. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. RetrievedSeptember6,2008,fromhttp://www.cdc.gov/ Std/stats06/pdf/Surv2006.pdf
20. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007c). Trends in reportable sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, 2006. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from http://www.obgyn.net/news/2006 STD Surveillance Report Fact Sheet.pdf
21. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2008a). HIV/AIDS surveillance report, 2006 (Vol. 18). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 6, 2008. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/ 2006SurveillanceReport.pdf
22. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2008b). What the CDC is doing. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved September 6, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/hispanics/cdc. htm
23. Crites, S. L., Fabrigar, L. R., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Measuring the affective and cognitive properties of attitudes: Conceptual and methodological issues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20(6), 619-634.
24. Cronbach, L. J. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychometrika, 16(3), 297-334.
25. Davis, K. R., & Weller, S. C. (1999). The effectiveness of condoms in reducing heterosexual transmission of HIV. Family Planning Perspectives, 31(6), 272-279.
26. DeVellis, R. F. (2003). Scale development: Theory and applications (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
27. Edwards, K. (1990). The interplay of affect and cognition in attitude formation and change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(2), 202-216.
28. Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitudes, intention, and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
29. Helweg-Larsen, M., & Collins, B. E. (1994). The UCLA multidimensionalcondomattitudes scale:Documenting the complex determinants of condom use in college students. Health Psychology, 13(3), 224-237.
30. Holmes, K. K., Levine, R., & Weaver, M. (2004). Effectiveness of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 82(6),454-461.
31. Katz, D. (1960). The functional approach to the study of attitudes. The Public Opinion Quarterly, 24(2), 163-204.
32. Lazzarin, A., Saracco, A., Musicco, M., & Nicolosi, A. (1991). Man-to-woman sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. Archives of Internal Medicine, 151(12), 2411-2416.
33. Madu, S. N., & Peltzer, K. (2003). Factor structure of condom attitudes among Black South African university students. Social Behavior and Personality, 31(3), 265-274.
34. McNeill, E.T.,Gilmore, C.E.,Finger, W.R.,Lewis, J.H.,& Schellstede, W. P. (2008). The latex condom: Recent advances, future directions. Family Health International. Retrieved September 22, 2008, from http://www.fhi. org/en/RH/Pubs/booksReports/latexcondom/index.htm
35. Nicolosi, A., Musicco, M., Saracco, A., & Lazzarin, A. (1994). Risk factors for woman-to-man sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 7(3), 296-300.
36. Osgood, C. E., Suci, G. J., & Tannenbaum, P. H. (1957). The measurement of meaning. Urbana, IL, and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
37. Plummer, M.L.,Wight, D.,Wamoyi, J.,Mshana, G.,Hayes, R. J., & Ross, D. A. (2006). Farming with your hoe in a sack: Condom attitudes, access, and use in rural Tanzania. Studies in Family Planning, 37(1), 29-40.
38. Rainer, R. K., & Miller, M. D. (1996). An assessment of the psychometric properties of the Computer Attitude Scale. Computers in Human Behavior, 12(1), 93-105.
39. Reinecke, J., Schmidt, P., & Ajzen, I. (1996). Applica- tion of the theory of planned behavior to adolescents' condom use: A panel study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(9), 749-772.
40. Sacco, W. P., Levine, B., Reed, D. L., & Thompson, K. (1991). Attitudes about condom use as an AIDS-relevant behavior: Their factor structure and relation to condom use. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 3(2), 265-272.
41. Sacco, W. P., Rickman, R. L., Thompson, K., Levine, B., & Reed, D. L. (1993). Gender differences in AIDS- relevant condom attitudes and condom use. AIDS Edu- cation and Prevention, 5(4), 311-326.
42. Schaalma, H., Kok, G., & Peters, L. (1993). Determinants of consistent condom use by adolescents: The impact of experience of sexual intercourse. Health Education Research, 8(2), 255-269.
43. Sheeran, P., & Taylor, S. (1999). Predicting intentions to use condoms: A meta-analysis and comparison of the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28(8), 1624-1675.
44. Trafimow, D., & Sheeran, P. (1998). Some tests of the distinction between cognitive and affective beliefs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34(4), 378-397.
45. Weigel, R.H., & Newman, L.S.(1976).Increasing attitude-behavior correspondence by broadening the scope of the behavioral measure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33(6), 793-802.
46. World Health Organization. (2000). Effectiveness of male latex condoms in protecting against pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Retrieved September 22, 2008, from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/ fs243/en/print.html
47. Zwick, W. R., & Velicer, W. F. (1986). Comparison of five rules for determining the number of components to retain. Psychological Bulletin, 99(3), 432-442.